Berny's photos with the keyword: col

It's raining on the next pass "Col du Petit Saint Bernard" (2188 m), where we cross the border from Italy to France. - scanned slides, Minolta X700 pass no. 29 - Col du Petit Saint Bernard (2188 m), Italy-France - day 5

It's raining on the next pass "Col du Petit Saint Bernard" (2188 m), where we cross the border from Italy to France. - scanned slides, Minolta X700 pass no. 29 - Col du Petit Saint Bernard (2188 m), Italy-France - day 5

The monument on the pass is for the Waadlandt pilot Adrien Guex, who crashed in 1928. - scanned slide, Minolta X700 pass no. 24 - Passo del San Gottardo (Gotthardpass, 2091 m), Switzerland - day 4

The Abra Blanca pass with 4080 m above sea level is the highest point of Ruta 51 between Salta and San Antonio de Los Cobres. The road has been built in 1915, when it was the highest drivable road in the world. The pass is called the entrance to the Puna, a unique Andes landscape. - scanned slide, Minolta X700 While we had no problems with the altitude at that time, the following night in San Antonio de Los Cobres should be terrible. Massive headache and a continuous pulse rate of about 150 let us call it "Sleepless in San Antonio". We simply drove up too quick at that day after starting with the flight from Buenos Aires to Salta at zero metres and the altitude there feels higher than elsewhere, people told us. By the way, the weather changed from one hour to another.

We drive down the south ramp of San Bernardino pass in Switzerland, directed south to Bellinzona. Then we will go up the next mountain col, the St. Gotthard-pass. - scanned slide, Minolta X700 pass no. 23 - San Bernardino (2066 m), Switzerland - day 4